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Crystal Palace won their first four games with Mamadou Sakho in the team, including the victory at Stamford Bridge over Chelsea. Photograph: PPAUK/REX/Shutterstock
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Mbaye Niang in action for Watford at Crystal Palace. ‘I’ve joined a good club, and a good team in the Premier League,’ he says. Photograph: Jason Brown/JMP/Rex/Shutterstock
Watford’s M’Baye Niang: ‘I’m All about Strength, Skill, Pace, Taking People on’
Recruited to the academy at 13, he had become Caen’s youngest senior player at 16 years and 114 days. In the summer of 2012 the teenager from Les Mureaux, an unforgiving industrial suburb of the Yvelines département to the west of Paris, would spend time on trial at...Caption:
Antonio Conte, here urging his team to victory over Manchester City, said he would be at Chelsea next season. Photograph: BPI/Rex/Shutterstock
Antonio Conte Commits to Chelsea and Slaps down Agent’s Talk of Possible Move
Antonio Conte has distanced himself from the latest wave of speculation linking him with a return to Italy in the summer, most probably with Internazionale, and stressed his aim was to claim the Premier League title with Chelsea and then “build something important”...Caption:
Jermain Defoe celebrates his goal, his first for England for four years, scored midway through the first half in England’s 2-0 home win against Lithuania. Photograph: Sandra Mailer/Rex/Shutterstock
Jermain Defoe Rolls Back the Years to Show England What They Have Missed
There was something very familiar about all this. The sight of a winger bustling to the byline and, even as he pulled the ball back across goal, being absolutely convinced the net would be billowing by the time his momentum had carried him on to the artificial turf...Caption:
Manchester United’s David de Gea endured a frantic night against Chelsea in the FA Cup. Photograph: JASONPIX/Rex/Shutterstock